What Joseph talks about is how a MMA is similar to teaching inner city kids. The comparison doesn't come from having to struggle to teach the kids, but to the system that doesn't care about the kids at all. He says that he will put in all of his effort and ability to teach them because learning, defined by politicians, is the tests that you take, not by the knowledge that you have. And he fights to make sure that his students are successful, no matter what help that they need. What this brings up is how can teachers help students the most? I think it is just to spend time and try to understand what the students need.
Admittance to a Better Life
What Michael talks about is how education saved him from a dangerous life. Before he was educated he used to hang out with a tough crowd and in shady spots. After he got a poem of his publicized he decided to go back to school to learn how to properly write and he learned his way out of a hole and is on his way to becoming a professor himself. This makes me wonder if given the chance, can everyone change for the better? I think the answer to that is yes but it will take more work for some vs others.
This I Believe
What Felicia writes about is her nona and what she has been through. She started out in Italy and moved over to America when she was 21 to marry a man. She converted her religion to Protestantism and was eventually disowned by her mother. She was unable to read and wrote most of her life and didn't know how to deal with numbers until later in life but when she was able to she was capable of doing complex math in her head. She also learned 5 languages and is very capable in all of them. This makes me wonder how much work she had to do to get that far? I can only imagine that it was a lot.
What Joseph talks about is how a MMA is similar to teaching inner city kids. The comparison doesn't come from having to struggle to teach the kids, but to the system that doesn't care about the kids at all. He says that he will put in all of his effort and ability to teach them because learning, defined by politicians, is the tests that you take, not by the knowledge that you have. And he fights to make sure that his students are successful, no matter what help that they need. What this brings up is how can teachers help students the most? I think it is just to spend time and try to understand what the students need.
Admittance to a Better Life
What Michael talks about is how education saved him from a dangerous life. Before he was educated he used to hang out with a tough crowd and in shady spots. After he got a poem of his publicized he decided to go back to school to learn how to properly write and he learned his way out of a hole and is on his way to becoming a professor himself. This makes me wonder if given the chance, can everyone change for the better? I think the answer to that is yes but it will take more work for some vs others.
This I Believe
What Felicia writes about is her nona and what she has been through. She started out in Italy and moved over to America when she was 21 to marry a man. She converted her religion to Protestantism and was eventually disowned by her mother. She was unable to read and wrote most of her life and didn't know how to deal with numbers until later in life but when she was able to she was capable of doing complex math in her head. She also learned 5 languages and is very capable in all of them. This makes me wonder how much work she had to do to get that far? I can only imagine that it was a lot.